A FOREST WORKING PLAN. 



Land Classification. 



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The total area of each of the three townships is divided into several classes of 

 land — the merchantable area, consisting of the spruce land and the swamp types 

 combined, the water front and the summit reserves, the burned-over land, and 

 the private holdings. In the following table is given the acreage of each of the 

 several classes of land in each of the three townships : 



TABLE IV.— AREAS — TOWNSHIPS 5, 6, and 41. 

 Reserves, Merchantable Area. 



TOWNSHIP. 



Burned-over 

 land. 



Water 

 front. 



Summit. 



Spruce land. 



Swamp. 



Total. 



Private 

 holdings. 



Total, 

 township. 



No. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



s 



963 



I.7S8 



397 



12,691 



4,462 



17,153 



2,835 



23, 106 



6 



14 



986 



1,411 



15,298 



6. 164 



21,462 



2,746 



26,619 



4i 



26 



1,962 



1,270 



14,206 



5-653 



19, 859 





23,H7 





1,003 



4,706 



3,078 



42,195 



16, 279 



58, 474 



5,58l 



72, 842 



Tl)e Forest. 



General Description. 



The forest on the three townships is of the general spruce and hardwood 

 type common to the Adirondack region. While similar to that on Township 40, 

 the forest on each of the other three townships in the block possesses certain 

 individual characteristics, due mainly to the topography. 



Red spruce is everywhere the commercially important tree. In mixture with 



it are found balsam, hemlock, arborvitae, white cedar, yellow birch, sugar maple, 



and beech, together with scattering individuals of other valuable species, the most 



important of which are white pine and black cherry. As is the case on Township 



40, the forest on these townships has, with the exception of a few very limited 



areas, never been cut over. Together the four townships form the best continuous 



body of existing original forest in the Forest Preserve, if not in the whole 



Adirondack region. 



Forest Types. 



Four types of forest were distinguished — spruce land, swamp, upper spruce 

 slope, and pine land. The spruce land and swamp types are commercially the 



